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Ive recently purchased a gateway LT21 netbook, it came loaded with Win 7 Starter. everything was working great. but after i upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate, 3 drivers would not work properly on the machine.

the copy of ultimate is geniune non OEM specific.

the first driver is the WLAN driver, Atheros AR5B95. the card sometimes see's networks but after 10-20 minutes it disconnects and doesnt see any networks anymore. i try enabling and disabling the card + hitting the repair button but to no avail.

sometimes i need to restart a couple times in order for the card to work.

second is the Launch Manager. all shortcut buttons are working except for the FN+F2 which turns the wireless card on and off.

the 3rd driver is the synaptics driver. i see no options is its configurations except for the left and right button.

oh yes, dare i mention that i formatted the entire HD for a clean installation and i ignorantly deleted the recovery partition.... and now gateway wont send me a recovery CD unless its to my old address (the one i got it shipped to) and currently im overseas....

its kind of obvious to get the latest drivers from gateway website... i already scanned the whole gateway support and contacted them and even tried different drivers posted on their website... to no avail. imagine customer support told me to put back 7 starter. what a solution!

After running the Gateway recovery disk, device manager reports an Atheros 8.0.0.238 driver. Google returns a number of results for the version, including some from Acer site:acer.com 8.0.0.238 - Google Search

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all shortcut buttons are working except for the FN+F2 which turns the wireless card on and off.

After running the Gateway recovery disk, device manager reports an Atheros 8.0.0.238 driver. Google returns a number of results for the version, including some from Acer site:acer.com 8.0.0.238 - Google Search

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all shortcut buttons are working except for the FN+F2 which turns the wireless card on and off.

the 3rd driver is the synaptics driver. i see no options is its configurations except for the left and right button.

My LT21 has an Alps touchpad, rather than one from Synaptics.

Dear Power Cat,

i have installed Gateway Power Management, then reinstalled launch manager after it and the fn+f2 works perfectly just like before,

as for the wireless driver, for some reason, after installing the 8.0.0.259 atheros driver for the 50th time, it doesnt disconnect anymore. i wanted to install .238 that you recommended, but i thought to myself, it aint broken, why fix it?

as for the touchpad, ive installed Alps drivers and the touchpad works perfectly with multi gesturing and all. i could swear it had synaptics driver.

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